Boost Your Beauty Self-Esteem

Rewrite your internal dialogue. Listen to how the voice in your head comments on your looks. Remind you of the middle school mean girl? You may be internalizing attitudes and ideals from other people or being too hard on yourself, says Vivian Diller, Ph.D., and Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D., coauthors of Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change (Hay House). Vow to talk to yourself with the same encouraging, kind words and tone you'd use for a close friend.